The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. House.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- haunted-wall-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Manor House, North Poorton
- OS grid reference
- SY 519 982
- Coordinates
- 50.78166, -2.68275
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a detached house that was formerly a manor farmhouse, dating from around 1700. It has been extensively rebuilt and re-roofed, with some architectural details altered in the 1970s. The building features coursed, squared rubble walls and a thatched roof, arranged in an L-plan with an unusual diagonal wall joining the two ranges, which includes an original door position.
The house is two storeys high with attics. On the south range, the east wall has two 2-light mullion windows, a bull's eye window, a doorway, another bull's eye window, and two more 2-light mullion windows. Notable original features include the stone bull's eye windows that remain in place, the original door position, and a continuous label raised over the front door. The mullions have been altered with concrete in the 1970s, and the number of lights per window has changed significantly since a survey in 1968.
The east range contains two 4-light mullion windows with separate labels, while the eastern window retains only its original stonework. There is a doorway in the angle with a late 17th-century depressed arch head and a label above it, along with an original bull's eye window above this doorway. Both doorways have 20th-century two-leaf doors with vertical glass lights. The information is based on a survey from 1968 that is in the owner's possession.
Local climate
The Manor House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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